Consent Quotes

“Loneliness sends you into your body instead of your brain.”
― Annabel Lyon, Consent

“Sandalwood - She recognized sandalwood. That was their mother's jewelry box, that smell. They used to take turns pushing their face into it and breathing deep. Cinnamon, and something else: floral, but not sweet. Darkly intoxicating, what black roses would smell like.”
― Annabel Lyon, Consent

“That was life, wasn't it? It didn't seem like you were falling.”
― Annabel Lyon, Consent

“I was her punishment, certainly, she thinks, taking the empty suitcase out from under the bed. As she was mine. But remind me again of our crime?”
― Annabel Lyon, Consent

“We take so much into us when we lose someone we love,” he said. “We must hold what is left of them. We make choices they would have made, feel what they would have felt. This is the piece of ourselves we lose, you see, because we must make room for them. Death is a parasite, of sorts.”
― Annabel Lyon, Consent